The Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music was created in 1994 by the estate of the late American pianist Yvar Mikhashoff to support composers and performers of new music. The first year that the trust granted awards was 1996.
Funding Category I: Tuition Assistance for Student: Tuition assistance for students of composition or performance of New Music at appropriate educational institutes or with individual instructors in the United States or abroad.
Funding Category II: Fellowships, Grants and Awards: Fellowships, grants and awards for young professionals who will not have achieved their 30th birthday by the application deadline of December 1. Projects for career-advancing research or documentation (e.g. seminar/ workshop study, travel or recording) will be considered.
Funding Category III: Grants: Grants to music ensembles, presenting organizations, music festivals and recording companies which are devoted primarily to public presentations and/ or recording of New Music anywhere in the world.
Yvar Mikhashoff was born Ronald MacKay in Troy near Albany, New York in 1941. He began piano studies with Betty Weir and Stanley Hummel in Albany. At the Eastman School of Music in 1959, he first took a major in composition and cello, then changed to piano studies with Armand Basile. In the 1961 academic year, he studied piano at the Juilliard School in New York City. He also had a career as a ballroom dancer from 1962-1965.
In 1964 Mikhashoff entered the University of Houston for studies in piano with Albert Hirsh. He earned a B.M. in 1967 and continued with graduate study in composition with Elmer Schoettle and obtained his M.M in 1968. It was during this period that MacKay adopted his grandfather's name, Mikhashoff.
Receiving a Fulbright scholarship, he studied the music of the French Impressionists with Nadia Boulanger. After his return to the United States, Mikhashoff entered the University of Texas at Austin as a doctoral candidate in composition and studied with Hunter Johnson, Kent Kennan, Janet McGaughey and Karl Korte. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree with a major in composition and a minor in literature in August 1973 and founded the Cambiata Soloists ensemble. In the Fall of 1973 Mikhashoff was appointed Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo . Based in Buffalo until his death in 1993, Mikhashoff had an international performing career which led him to promote new music and American music around the world.
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